Aldous Huxleys Brave New World Essay -- essays research papers

In the "Brave New World" of 632 A. F. (After Ford), usual human happiness has been achieved. (Well, almost.) Control of reproduction, genetic engineering, conditioning--especially via repetitive messages delivered during sleep--and a double-dyed(a) pleasure drug called "Soma" are the cornerstones of the new society. Reproduction has been outside from the womb and placed on the conveyor belt, where reproductive workers tinker with the embryos to pull in various grades of human beings, ranging from the super-intelligent Alpha Pluses down to the shorter and dumber semi-moron Epsilons. The story takes place in England where the new society lives. Due to a gigantic biological onslaught almost all of the world is destroyed except for england and parts of the U.S.In Brave New World elegance is controlled by conditioning and hatchery. Everyone is brought into civilization through a test tube, "the operation undergone voluntarily for the good of society." The D. H.C. (the theater director of Hatcheries and Conditioning) decides which of the five castes in society the test tube babies will break down to. At a young age, the babies are conditioned to think and recreate certain ways depending on which caste they will belong to. The kickoff chapters describe this brave new world as the D.H.C (Director of hatcheries and conditioning.) gives a congregation of children a tour of the facility. The reader meets Lenina Crowne who had been dating Henry Foster for any(prenominal) time, and ...